The 40 most popular mexican family movies, ranked. Click any film for ratings, reviews, trailers, and where to watch.


The Legend of the Black Charro
2018 · 1h 25m · MX
After releasing the Chupacabras, Leo San Juan decides that it is time to return together with his brother Nando to his grandmother's house. Halfway down the road, Charro Negro manages to confuse Leo and because of him, an innocent girl is dragged into the underworld. Leo is forced to repair the damage. His friends will come to try to help him and get out of there as soon as possible. But it is no coincidence that the Charro has chosen to involve Leo, his intentions go beyond getting a new soul.


La venganza del Charro Negro
2026 · MX
The return of Leo San Juan and all the legends.


La Leyenda de los Chaneques
2023 · 1h 29m · MX
Five years after giving up his powers and separating from his friends, Leo San Juan has started a new life trying to focus on his family and their bakery, staying away from danger and adventures. However, Leo knows that his plans are rarely fulfilled and this time is no exception: while traveling with Nando to Veracruz, things start to get weird, and from the depths of the Tuxtlas jungle, an ancient curse has returned and only Leo can face it.


The Legend of the Nahuala
2007 · 1h 24m · MX
Leo San Juan, an insecure child of nine years old, lives eternally frightened by horror stories that Nando tells his older brother. Within these stories it is 'The Legend of Nahuala', according to which, an old abandoned Casona is possessed by the spirit of an evil witch known as the Nahuala.


The Legend of La Llorona
2011 · 1h 15m · MX
Based on a famous Mexican legend, a group of kids must stop the ghost of a woman whose guilt over the drowning of her own children leads her to abduct youngsters who wander the woods at night.


The Legend of the Guanajuato Mummies
2014 · 1h 24m · MX
Three friends confront a horde of mummies, who have inexplicably awakened, and try to rescue their pal, not realizing they have fallen into a trap.


Las leyendas: El origen
2021 · 1h 30m · MX
When a human baby crosses the Eternal Mirror, the portal between the living and the dead opens its path to the beings from the underworld.


The Legend of the Chupacabras
2016 · 1h 23m · MX
Leo San Juan and his team of "ghostbusters" continue with their adventures, this time fighting against the mexican monster himself: "El Chupacabras".


I Am Frankelda
2025 · 1h 44m · MX
A gifted young writer in 19th-century Mexico journeys into her subconscious and comes face to face with characters from her own spooky stories.


Huevos: Little Rooster's Egg-Cellent Adventure
2015 · 1h 39m · MX
Toto has grown and now is a young cock. An evil rancher tricks the female owner of the ranch where they live and forces her to bet the property in a cockfight in the arena. Toto is the only option to defend their home, so he must train in just one week and win the championship of the arena.


Santa Claus
1959 · 1h 34m · MX
Pitch, the mean-spirited devil, is trying to ruin Christmas. Santa Claus teams up with Merlin the Magician and the children of the world in order to save the day!


Impossible Things
2021 · 1h 28m · MX
After the death of her abusive husband, Matilde finds her new best friend in Miguel, her young, insecure, and disoriented neighbor.


PAW Patrol: Mighty Pups
2018 · 44m · CA
When their latest scheme goes awry, Mayor Humdinger and his nephew Harold accidentally divert a meteor towards Adventure Bay. The meteor's golden energy grants the PAW Patrol superpowers. The heroic Mighty Pups are on a roll to super-save the day.


Salma's Big Wish
2019 · 1h 35m · MX
In the Mexican town of Santa Clara, Salma, a 16 year-old orphan who never got to meet her biological parents, has spent most of her life searching for clues of their identities and whereabouts, that is until she discovers a special book that is filled with stories of the town's past and the history of it's people.


Adios cuñado
1967 · 1h 30m · MX
The classic family with more sisters and one brother who has to deal with all the naughty words about being the brother in law of many.


An Egg Rescue
2021 · 1h 29m · MX
Toto and his friends must rescue his egg children after they're taken away for a gourmet food event in Africa.


Sor Tequila
1980 · 1h 27m · MX
La India María, who is really good at sports, becomes a nun and is always getting in trouble for wanting to help people.


Familia a la deriva
2026 · 1h 38m · MX
To make up for lost time with his four children, a charismatic car salesman organizes a Caribbean yacht trip that quickly spirals into an out-of-control adventure filled with mix-ups, laughs, and second chances.


Xico's Journey
2020 · 1h 27m · MX
The peace of a small town is endangered when a corporation wants to destroy the mountain that protects them. A girl named Copi and her best friend Xico, a Xoloitzcuintle dog, will go into the mountains to try to save the town.


I want to dream
1981 · 1h 25m · MX
A boy lives with the last man his mother loved before she died, but a well-matched couple wants to stay with him and adopt him as their son due to their problems conceiving. Although the situation for the orphan is not the best after his mother died, little by little he will find happiness and overcome it in a water park. There he will become a great inseparable friend of the dolphins.


A Movie of Eggs
2006 · 1h 30m · MX
A small egg named Toto decides that he wants to fulfill his purpose in life and become a chicken instead of dying in a frying pan; so he starts a quest to return to the farms along with his new friend, the noisy egg Willy and a crazy bacon stripe. The three friends will face lot of obstacles in their quest.


Lukas Storyteller
2019 · 1h 35m · US
After meeting Jesus during one of his adventures in the Sea of Galilee, Lukas and his friend Noah the turtle, share the wonderful stories of Jesus and other Heroes of the Bible with Lukas' friends from the reef: Ana, Paul, Agnes and Peter. Discover how these stories full of music and fun changed the lives of Lukas and his friends, and how they can change yours.


Little Eggs: A Frozen Rescue
2022 · 1h 31m · MX
Toto and his family must travel to the South Pole to fulfill a promise: return a polar bear and some Spanish penguins to their home. To achieve this, they will have to overcome obstacles that teach them how important teamwork is.


Mama Solita
1980 · 1h 35m · MX
When her husband abandons her and her son, she ends up as a nightclub singer and gets sick, so the boy travels to the United States because he wants to find his father to ask him to return.


Kenopsia
2022 · 15m · MX
A woman who focused on being a mother feels that she no longer has any purpose now that her son has made his own life, until one lonely night after a storm, she finds a nest on the ground of her garden with a small egg that gives signs of life, and when she rescues him she puts aside her monotony to take care of him as if she were his mother.


Robinson Crusoe
1970 · 1h 33m · MX
The classic Daniel Defoe tale as told by a narrating tiger that witnesses castaway Robinson Crusoe's struggles to survive the man-eating cannibals on the tropical island


Capulina Corazón de León
1970 · 1h 20m · MX
It didn't really have a plot, but things happened: bumbling bozo raises a lion cub in his apartment, bumbling bozo gets a lion's heart transplantedd into him, bumbling bozo gets mixed up with criminals.


Top Cat Begins
2015 · 1h 29m · IN
Top Cat and his new feline friend hatch a scheme to steal from the fearful Mr. Big.


Blue Miracle
2021 · 1h 35m · MX
To save their cash-strapped orphanage, a guardian and his kids partner with a washed-up boat captain for a chance to win a lucrative fishing competition.


Dos locos en escena
1960 · 1h 34m · MX
Viruta and Capulina, magicians working in a theater where the actors delegate dishonest ratchets, is assassinated by two stagehands to remove payroll and left her body in the clubhouse Cristas singer Virutas girlfriend. He and Capulina move the body in a trunk to utility room but the trunk is base off and the body is in the Viruta's room. A lush Chasing Coquis showgirl girlfriend Capulina, stains of red paint and falls asleep, believing him dead detectives accuse Capulina and Viruta of murder.


Where the Tracks End
2023 · 1h 35m · MX
Georgina is a teacher determined to make a difference in the lives of the children she educates in the classroom of a wagon school in rural Mexico.


El Rey de Acapulco
1972 · MX
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The Mark of the Skunk
1950 · 1h 45m · MX
In 1840 California, The Texmelucan viscount bizco, offers a feast for his son Tin, who returned from Italy where he studied fencing. The boy turns out to be a coward who flees in terror after refusing to fight a duel with Captain Gaspar. In their flight, Tin rescues a witch was tied to a tree. Grateful, the witch gives him an ointment that will make him invincible for an hour. The coward swordsman will have three opportunities to use it and save his father from the injustices of the evil ruler Marcelo.


Catalina la Catrina: Especial Día de Muertos
2021 · 47m · MX
Catalina lives in the underworld and dreams of being an agent that connects the living with their deceased relatives. When the Day of the Dead is in danger of never being celebrated again, she must break all the rules to rescue the bread of the dead and the hot chocolate of this wonderful tradition.


Top Cat: The Movie
2011 · 1h 30m · AR
There's a new police chief in the neighbourhood who is disappointed with Officer Dibble's performance. The chief and his army of robots declare war on Top Cat and his gang of feisty felines.


FELIPE
2024 · 1h 23m · GT
The Argentine crisis of 2001 is about to explode. Felipe, 13, sees how his family environment is cracking due to the economic and political pressures. Misunderstood, he falls in love with Lucía, the neighbor next door and for a moment he stops feeling alone. But when external violence becomes a real danger, Felipe escapes with her, fed up with the lies of his parents, leaving behind his innocence.


El caballo torero
1973 · 2h 10m · MX
An adult baby is the groomer of an extra-special horse that some bad guys want to steal.


El casado casa quiere
1948 · 1h 23m · MX
Interfering relatives complicate a couple's attempt to build their dream house.


Americano
2016 · 1h 37m · MX
Cuco, a mexican parrot, goes on an adventure from Mexico to Hollywood in order to get help from El Americano, a famous superhero from TV, against an evil band of birds trying to take control of his family’s beloved circus.


Nube
2024 · 8m · FR
After witnessing an old dark stormy cloud painfully rain and die in sorrow; Noma, a puffy white cloud realizes that Mixtli, her daughter, a dark stormy cloud, is in danger of raining prematurely.
Mexican cinema had a Golden Age in the 1940s and 50s and a second surge from the late 1990s, when Cuarón, del Toro, and Iñárritu moved between Mexican production and Hollywood without abandoning either.
Family films are made to work for two audiences at once, which is a harder brief than it sounds. The enduring ones layer real emotional stakes under the accessibility.